With the national energy around the matric results starting to settle, it is a good time to stand back and reflect. For us as educators and civil citizens, 2020 was a year like no other that any of us had ever experienced. This time last year we started learning about the novel coronavirus, and its disease, Covid-19. We learnt about living in uncertainty and we learnt about new social contracts, like not hugging. We also saw a world morph into working from home without a hiccup - the successes and pitfalls of which have been hotly debated for decades. We saw job losses, food insecurity and we saw hardship and suffering. At our school, about 10% of our staff reported contracting Covid-19, and virtually everyone experienced trauma in their immediate or augmented circles.
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Archive for month: April, 2021
Natasha Mkhize, brand and marketing manager for Curro Holding's network of schools, shares with us the value of growing up with a strong role model, and explains what it takes to market not just a 'moment', but a lifetime experience.
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The idea that online students are 'not smart enough' or 'lazy' or that they don't get 'real' degrees discourage many people from taking online courses, making them feel that they need to opt for traditional education that costs a lot of money, and time that they simply don't have.
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Lillian Bususu, the graduate placement manager at IIE Rosebank College, offers useful tips on everything job seekers need to know and do when starting their job search, which includes paying attention to detail, doing everything with excellence and persevering through the process.
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The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has called on all NSFAS funded students, who are registered at a public university and Technical and Vocational Education and Training colleges, to order laptops online.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has paved the way for a hybrid model in education, combining digital and traditional methods of teaching and learning - but governments need to act so that progress from the past year is not lost, according to the latest report from Oxford University Press (OUP).
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Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, countries across the world have invested around $12tn in response measures to save lives and support critical economic structures. As the pandemic wears on, those funds are being stretched increasingly thin, with governments forced to make difficult fiscal trade-offs. In developing regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa, where health systems are less advanced and require a higher share of limited resources, those trade-offs can lead to areas that pose less immediate socioeconomic risks being overlooked. Areas such as education.
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Educators from around the globe will come together at the inaugural T4 Education Teacher Tech Summit on Saturday, 17 April, to recognise the leading role teachers have played in developing digital and educational solutions during the pandemic.
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Several studies have shown that besides technical education, "soft skills" are critical for graduates to succeed as innovators, entrepreneurs, and in the formal workplace. These include problem-solving, teamwork and communication.
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Several studies have shown that besides technical education, "soft skills" are critical for graduates to succeed as innovators, entrepreneurs, and in the formal workplace. These include problem-solving, teamwork and communication.
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